BALTIMORE - Marion Williams knows she has a hard time relaxing. She leads a busy life as a traveling nurse, grandmother of 10, and advocate for nursing home residents, and for years she had high blood pressure. "It was due to the stress," said Williams, one of many black Americans who has battled high blood pressure.
Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
Exercise is not enough to offset the increased death risk associated with being obese, research suggests. A study of more than 116,000 women nurses found physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese.
The Harvard School of Public Health researchers said the key was both to exercise and lose weight.
Americans Not Satisfied With Quality of Health CareOne-third say they or a family member have experienced a medical error (HealthDayNews) -- Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at U.S. hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation's quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- A sharp-eyed observation by an emergency room nurse has led to the possibility of a new way to limit the damage suffered by people who have strokes, researchers report.
It happened at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School about five years ago, when Dr.
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Abstract:A study raises the possibility that frequent use of aspirin, long thought to prevent some kinds of cancer, may actually increase the likelihood of pancreatic tumors. The research, part of the highly regarded Nurses Health Study at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, came to the unexpected conclusion that women who take aspirin twice daily may have nearly double the risk of this rare form of cancer.
Results of two long-term studies suggest that vitamin D supplements could reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Kassandra Munger of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues examined data collected from the 20-year Nurses' Health Study and the 10-year Nurses' Health Study II, in which a total of 187,563 women gave information about their dietary habits and multivitamin use.
New research suggests that eating a diet containing plenty of magnesium rich foods, such as nuts, grains, and leafy green vegetables, may help to lower the risk of developing type II diabetes. Dr Ruy Lopez-Ridaura of Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues studied the dietary habits of 85,000 female nurses for 18 years and 42,000 male health professionals for 12 years.
Proponents of estrogen cite both scientific studies and the experiences of numerous women to show that this female hormone can ease or eliminate menopausal woes
Aging versus AntiagingGeriatrics is in trouble while antiaging medicine takes off
Reprinted from The Futurist (World Future Society)Authored by Cythia Wagner, Managing Editor, The Futurist. Originally published in the September-October 2001 issue of THE FUTURIST. Used with permission from the World Future Society, 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 USA.
